Documents: Plant owners ‘willfully’ used ineligible workers

Jackson, Miss. • Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were “willfully and unlawfully” employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration violations, according to unsealed court documents.Federal investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on confidential informants inside the plants in addition to data from the mo